A funny surprise in the latest film “Superman” was the appearance of Bradley Cooper as a biological father of Superman. He is in the film only for a minute, and he saw exclusively a recording he left for Superman when he sent him to Earth like a baby. The limited time means that there is practically no time to get used to the casting, so most of the time it is on the screen, the spectator’s left thinks: “Wait, is it Bradley Cooper?” And then wonders how and why he was thrown into the role.
In a recent interview, the director / writer James Gunn explained how Cooper Cameo became. He explained how, from the first day, he was looking for someone who corresponded to the vibrations of Marlon Brando, the actor who played Superman’s father, Jor-El, in the 1978 film. “I needed someone who could play Jor-El, who had the stature of what we imagine that this character was,” said Gunn. “Someone who could walk in the footsteps of Marlon Brando.”
It turned out that this person was someone with whom Gunn had already worked on three separate films “Guardians of the Galaxy”. “Really, Bradley just makes me a favor,” Gunn told People Magazine. “He is a friend. We have stayed in close contact since the” Guardians “films, and I greatly admire him as an actor and as a director.” Gunn said he had called Cooper and said, “Hey, you will make me a favor? Go down, go to England, we’re going to shoot you in a 3D environment, make a hologram from you, and you can play Jor-El.” Cooper was apparently completely on board.
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Although Jor -El’s Grand Camée may have been distracting, he also helped make the great twist of the film around the character – which he had sent Superman on Earth to enslave humanity, not protect them – struck so much stronger. Cooper is an intrinsically charming actor, someone who has essentially been trained to love and trust in the past 25 years. He is someone to whom the public wants to believe, just like Superman wants; When we discover Jor-El’s true nature, we share Superman’s desire to believe that the video has been tampered with. If someone like Willem Dafoe had played Superman’s father, we would have seen this twist coming from a distance mile.
The cast of such a friendly actor in such an unmanageable role helped the film to nail his most interesting turn on this new version of Superman, that he is a hero who fully rejects the moral of his original world. The fact that Superman is such a good person despite his Kryptonian origins, not because of her, is a catch that is undoubtedly even more optimistic than the usual “Superman” stories.
When asked if Cooper could come back for a “Superman” suite, Gunn replied: “You never know.” It is possible. ” Admittedly, it is difficult to imagine how Jor-El could come back since he died 30 years before the start of the first film, but it is not as if death had ever stopped comic strip films before.
